Appending to Your Python Path

Question

How do you append directories to your Python path?

Answer

Your path (i.e. the list of directories Python goes through to
search for modules and files) is stored in the path
attribute of the sys module. Since path
is a list, you can use the append method to add
new directories to the path.

For instance, to add the directory /home/me/mypy to
the path, just do: